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by knorby 11y ago
They get one of the very few companies in mobile gaming who are able to repeatedly make hits. There are lots and lots of one hit wonders, and maybe that's all that King is, but they seem to have somewhat of a leg up on anyone else.
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by knorby 11y ago
If the EPA had to tackle the problem standalone, then, sure, the scale wouldn't make it sensible. It could end up influencing whatever regulation goes into cars to prevent this sort of dishonesty in the future. Perhaps cars will need t
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by knorby 11y ago
I was comparing methods, not scale. The scale of an impact of one really bad car when it comes to certain emissions shouldn't be understated; it is important to remember that VW was simply seeking pollution they could get away with. Em
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by knorby 11y ago
Apparently a lot of people who make these sorts of modifications can pass emission tests. They hook up a settings swapper to the ECU, and when they need it to be clean, they put it into factory default mode. It is essentially the same sort
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by knorby 11y ago
Because DoS's email system was crazy ancient at time (maybe still?), and the rules allowed the boss some leeway. In terms of security and government IT, 2008 was a long time ago.
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by knorby 11y ago
The ad is poor, but is there anything to strongly influence your opinion on restrictions other than gut feeling of the company? A big claim made by proponents of Prop F is that the existing, and recently created, compliance by AirBnB and ho
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by knorby 11y ago
You are correct. I deeply mixed up people. I was thinking of this interview with Robert Blecker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9YgWXKAwNY . That it is failing and states haven't adjusted to something that might cause
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by knorby 11y ago
(Now that I'm off my phone...) my wording could have been better, but it is meant to be an anxiety provoking and harsh, similar to past methods, and there are some speculations on the drug. An overdose of anesthetic, sodium thiopental
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by knorby 11y ago
I believe it is designed to cause pain and distress, because I've heard the designer of lethal injection say that's the point. Kinder methods were rejected because it was meant as a replacement for means like the electric chair, t
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by knorby 11y ago
What's sad about that is that there are plenty of lethal drugs that are perfectly legal and normally regulated, but they aren't part of the must-cause-pain execution method used. Terminally ill patients seeking medically assisted
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by knorby 11y ago
Facebook (the service) itself can maintain the company as is, but they have ads on Instagram at least. FB currently makes several dollars per user per quarter in revenue (or profits), with that value depending on what number you go by, but
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by knorby 11y ago
I was pretty amazed at what the card issuers have to put up in chargeback contests. I had to file an affidavit after someone charged my card with the wrong name and wrong zip code; the retailer accepted the charges anyway, perhaps because t
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by knorby 11y ago
I drink a fair amount of diet coke/coke zero, so I've looked into aspartame more than a few times, and I have never come back concerned. I haven't seen a study that points a serious health risk to consuming aspartame found in
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by knorby 11y ago
You are totally correct, but somehow Amazon couriers just opt for the maximum creep factor. UPS will call my apartment call box if I'm one of the people getting a package delivered, and they have the phrasing down. Amazon couriers will
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by knorby 11y ago
That's true under so many circumstances. If you book a chain hotel, you are really just trusting that the chain has reasonably tight control over the quality of the branch. There are plenty of 'nightmare' hotels out there, an
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by knorby 11y ago
I don't know about Siri, but there are various means to integrate commands into both Google speech recognition (at least on Android) and Amazon Alexa (Echo). Amazon at least is looking to get third-party devices integrated. Probably no
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by knorby 11y ago
> Code that runs a car is the opposite: it is worthless by itself What about for self-driving/automation features? There is a strong argument that such code especially should be available for scrutiny, but it is far from worthless a
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by knorby 11y ago
Facebook took over Sun's old campus, and I imagine some corp would take over Google's campus if they left. Ultimately office space is office space, and planning for a mass regional exodus seems unwarranted. Most or all of the citi
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by knorby 11y ago
An alternative interpretation is that Shkreli is a sociopath (other evidence of that) who's try to exploit people with no choice, and he's giving some hard to verify excuses to deflect criticism. Maybe they will create a new drug
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by knorby 11y ago
It is a question of switch control more than anything. They are losing Cisco software, etc... with cheaper Open Compute switches, so they need some means to configure them within Azure; in all respects, that's a benefit to Microsoft. F
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by knorby 11y ago
Would any such countermeasure really be worth it to use random 8GB USB drives from conferences? They are so cheap, and I have a hard time believing this would ever be better than simply not using these ever.
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by knorby 11y ago
I can't argue with that, but the Apple TV will hit obsolescence much quicker, particularly as 4K becomes more prevalent. I just find it odd that Apple totally excludes the higher end of the market...Android TV has a range of options at
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by knorby 11y ago
In terms of hardware, it isn't the winner for this sort of product. According to reports from a few days ago, the new Apple TV lacks 4K support. The Nvidia Shield runs Android TV, supports 4K (well), and has a pretty reasonable GPU in
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by knorby 11y ago
What's practical and what's cost effective aren't necessarily the same. Subways or really most any commuter train is only close to cost effective in some of the more extreme urban densities, and it is real energy hog if peopl
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by knorby 11y ago
Mass transit projects in the bay end up being highly disruptive and costing billions a piece. I'd like to see more subways in terms of getting around, but there is plenty of logic in arguing for BRT over trains. I think most cities hav
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by knorby 11y ago
Apparently it wasn't really killed by the local populace. There is narrative about how it would have caused sprawl-like development (certainly a conservative mindset in context). I couldn't find any references to that for Marin th
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by knorby 11y ago
The sense I get is just that they don't cancel successful accounts very often; given the escalations, I have to believe they have some strong reason. It sounds like they will have some host community issues now, but what got me was how
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by knorby 11y ago
> If Amazon 'jacks up it's prices', Netflix will simply move to another provider. Like hell they will. The switching cost for Netflix, and really most heavy AWS users, would be extreme at this point. A good portion of the
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by knorby 11y ago
I'm guessing here, but since fleet fuel efficiency standards have been around for awhile, making cars like hybrids attractive to sell, extending that concept is natural. I would love to buy an EV right now, but charging it really would
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by knorby 11y ago
So either the journalist/researchers did something highly dangerous to the reporter and others on the highway as a stunt, or the journalist has no qualms about making up details for shock value? Sounds ethical.

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